I was pleasantly surprised to see a trailer for Cry Macho the other day, an upcoming movie starring and directed by Clint Eastwood. I thought that Eastwood had retired from acting after The Mule, but here he is pulling double duty again. Even in his 90's Eastwood does amazing work, and now I can look forward to watching at least one more performance.
Still wishing Clint wouldmake a Jonah Hex movie the right way.
ReplyDeleteAmen, Ross! And, re: today's cover? I applaud your choice of Tyne Daly as Jean DeWolff. Her character in THE ENFORCERS, while ill-fated, still came across as more kick-butt than even Chloe Moretz!
ReplyDelete@Carycomic: that's probably just as well. There's something a tad unacceptable about a superheroine played by someone named after a breath mint.
ReplyDeleteSeeing the use of Dirty Harry here reminds me of another team-up idea that I had recently: The Punisher and DexStarr!
ReplyDeleteof course, the formerly-white bits on the Punisher's costume would now be red, and he'd be wearing a certain kind of ring...
("Frank Castle of Earth, you are possessed of a great Rage: Welcome to the Red Lantern Corps.")
Good morning, Mr P. Your mission, should you decide to accept it is to recruit and organize The Pack. Single type law enforcers to group together as a posse. STARTING with Dirty Harry, Judge Dredd and others you may deem of value. Good luck, Ross.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like what I did with Skip Tracers...
ReplyDeleteHammond's Spidey teaming up with Dirty Harry seems to me a bit incongruous, but could work. But just seeing Clint on a photo cover, well... I feel lucky. It made my day.
ReplyDelete@Simreeve: actually, that could work! I mean, didn't Galactus once have a robot guard known as "The Punisher?"
ReplyDeleteThere's also the alt-universe Frank Castle who became Cosmic Ghost Rider, whom I'd love to see make an appearance here. He seems like someone who could team up with the Spectre. (Jim shared a cover with Ghost Rider Johnny Blaze way back in #688, but this is a different character.)
ReplyDeletePS: While searching through the Spectre tag, I found another item for your "duplicated images" collection, Ross: #2872 and #3175! Those are bound to slip through every so often, of course, and stumbling across this has only added to the fun.
It does run parallel. But, you could also do a live action cover of them. Vigilante from Arrow, Dirty Harry, Dredd, Lobo from the animated (Shades of Roger Rabbit), and so on.
ReplyDeleteYou have Crowd Control on covers down pretty well.
@Tobor: If we want a live-action Lobo, there's the version from Krypton. He was reasonably true to the comics (not dead-on, of course, but what ever is?).
ReplyDeleteanother great photo cover, Ross....
ReplyDeletenow for some photo cover stats....
Hulk and Spiderman have appeared 8 times each....
Superman and Batman 7 times each....
Wonder Woman 5 times....
Greatest American Hero 3 times....
2 times each for The Thing, Robin,
Supergirl, The Doctor (Who), and The Phantom....
and one each for Xena and Batgirl....
which totals 24 for DC and 21 for Marvel....
Ooopppsss....
ReplyDeletei forgot The Flash at 2 appearances which brings the totals to DC with 26 and Marvel still at 21....
sorry bout that....
Mr. Greenwade? You're a genius!
ReplyDeleteHey Ross: how about Lobo vs. the Venomized Punisher?
Actually I'm hoping we can one day get a photo cover giving us the "official comic book adaptation" of The Danvers Twins, starring Brie Larson and Melissa Benoist. (And probably Jon Cryer and Jude Law as co-stars; why mess with success?)
ReplyDeleteLoki (Asgardian god of failure): "Because it's there!"
ReplyDeleteI don't find it incongruous, Bob. Especially if Andrew Robinson's Scorpio (from the original DH) has not only been cloned. But, spliced with actual scorpion DNA, too! Discourtesy of. . .Norman Osborn.
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